It’s been an on-going debate for as long as I can remember (12+ years?) but is Vancouver really the hub of high tech startups and the like? The article poses some pretty good points but I wonder how Vancouver stacks up to Toronto or Montreal.

Anyways, good read & enjoy!
Ps. “Pivot to Canada” = too funny!

Is Vancouver becoming Silicon Valley North?

“Facebook said the employment of up to 150 staff in Vancouver from around the world is only short-term, and points to the obstructive U.S. immigration system that “makes it difficult, and sometimes impossible,” to bring talented engineers to its Menlo Park headquarters, south of San Francisco.

“We’re seeking very deliberately to benefit from the dysfunctional American immigration system,” Jason Kenney said recently, when asked about a year-old campaign that erected giant “Pivot to Canada” billboards in the San Francisco Bay-area advertising directly to foreign nationals blocked from obtaining H-1B visas.”